Foundation Theatre Programme – artistic Saturday

A whole lot of creativity filled the room on Saturday. Here is our ‘improvised’ art inspired by Wassily Kandinsky.

I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colours. I am the urge to paint an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.

I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorise. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.

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22 Responses to Foundation Theatre Programme – artistic Saturday

Wow pictures look amazing.Looks like it was an amazing day working with abstract & literal.I can imagine that you all are loving it.Looking forward to see what other things come out this group

Garth FinchFebruary 17, 2015

Being at PACE on Saturday, it was great to see the buzz you all had as you soared down the stairs covered in paint, excited at the artistic task at hand! The muse of the left brain and right brain interests me and I can imagine that the art you created has very well portrayed that. Hopefully the cast of REmOTE can connect with you this Saturday, where we can share our experiences!
Garth

Morgan grantFebruary 17, 2015

I really enjoyed the workshop on Saturday!! I love the idea of the right and left side of your brain, I find it really interesting that there are two sides to everyone's brain and that we need both sides to bring everything together and make things work. I love thinking abstract and literal even though I find it more difficult to think literal. I feel like I have learned so much over these past few weeks and grown so much in drama. Can't wait for Saturday wonder what we will do this week.

Eilidh PatersonFebruary 17, 2015

i definitely would do this again i enjoyed it so much and had a lot of fun too. i found using the right side of my brain easier than the left. i had never known that everyones brain had two sides, one for creativity and the other thats like the mathematician. thank you very much i hope the floor was not too stained with paint!! :) and it all started with a dot...

Lauren AinsworthFebruary 17, 2015

This is so interesting! I'm glad to see so many younger ones so interested in creativity, it's so refreshing!

Foundation Theatre is starting to make it's mark (and not just in the form of painted bare footsteps all over Spires!)
The brain is a fascinating thing isn't it? It controls everything that we are: what we do, what we say, what we think and what we feel. It's safe to say we'd be nothing without it. Similarly we'd be nothing without both the right and left side. Remember when we swapped halfway through the workshop and saw that each side managed to complement the other? They are two completely different aspects of our personality and creativity and yet we all have and need both sides.
Art means a thousand different things to a thousand different people. I know we've discussed this before but when your researching The Little Prince that's definitely something to look out for and is worth exploring further.
Speaking to some of you in the workshop on Saturday it seemed even your own art took on many forms depending on whose eyes it was seen through-some saw the universe, some saw a collection of tiny pictures and to some it was a splatter of emotions. Even on the more literal side of the room people were interpreting the 'mind' differently, associating it with both intellect and creativity.
A simple thought can grow into anything. It's all about seeing beyond what's in front of you and allowing yourself to "think outside the box, inside the box".
See you on Saturday FTP :)
Gwen x

Lucy QuinnFebruary 18, 2015

Saturday's workshop was really great. A chance to express ourselves through colour, shape and words. Everything on our canvases really did start with a dot and then turned into so much more!! I found the more literal side easier beacuse I am probably more of an organised thinker and everything needs to be perfect. I have just started reading 'The Little Prince' and I'm now on the second chapter, but so far I'm really enjoying it! I didn't think a book could make you think so much, and when the little boy asked of the painting scared the adults and they said no, he got so downhearted he gave up art and drawing and went on to pilot planes. When I read that I thought that it was such a shame that a few people could change someones life! Can't wait for Saturday's workshop to get another chance to think outside the box and try to be original.
P.s. Have we to bring anything on Saturday like character skirts, etc.

David DuncanFebruary 19, 2015

Back to theatre blacks, character skirts and appropriate footwear. Remember, sketchbooks too. :)

Jake KeenanFebruary 22, 2015

yesterday was CRAZZZZZZY! i had lots of fun.
Thanks :-D

Conlan GallacherFebruary 19, 2015

Loved looking at these photos, there is so much going on! You want to be there with them. Cannot wait to see what else this group of actors can produce!

Orla MorrowFebruary 19, 2015

I loved doing this activity and looking at all the photos. I couldn't agree more that i am a more abstract thinker when it comes to the two, very different, sides of the brain. I expressed myself through colour and shape which is something that Wassily Kandinsky had done also. I learned that everyone is different when it comes to thinking about acting and performance. All of the workshops we have been doing has really made me feel like i am improving on my acting skills. I am really looking forward to the next workshop on Saturday and am going to walk in confident and energized. And remember everything starts with a dot!

Kara Jayne DarrochFebruary 20, 2015

I am really enjoying Foundations so far. I've loved expressing ourselves and a characters story thorough physical theatre.It was very interesting and fun exploring the two side of the brain . And I've learned a lot during Foundations, I love how it's something new every week and how you all ways learn something new. I'm very excited for tomorrow.

David DuncanFebruary 20, 2015

Here is comment by Anna Boulton-Jones:
Saturday was great. What ever way our brains worked, whether or not we were left or right sided. We could put our thought on canvas using either words or shape and colour without anyone saying no.
I am thoroughly enjoying the foundation project as I feeI that I have learnt lots more about acting. I have also tried out and developed many new skills!
I think the little prince's message is that the most important things in life can be felt by the heart like love, hope and passion.

NadiaFebruary 20, 2015

saturday was so fun and i really feel that i really understand about the left and right side of the brain. it was really fun doing the painting and mind maps. i think i kind of get the idea of the 2 art messages( i also asked some of my friends to see what they thought) i think what this means is that: you have the formal side and creative side and that you have to connect to both to know the true meaning of abstract art. i think the pieces are really beautiful and i really connected to them. I think Kandinsky really understands both sides of his brain so he made the most beautiful of abstract art. this is the way young children and toddelers understand their brains which is how the child's mind is so abstract and wonderful. i think as you get older you find it more difficult to fully understand how to connect both sides and only the minority can, and that's what makes Kandinsky such a good abstract painter. See you guys tomorrow :)

I Loved the creative day and agreed with David's decision to put me on the right side of the brain because I think I am a very creative person through my acting. I also liked the left side of the brain because I got the chance to express myself with words describing imagination.

Ruth stewartFebruary 20, 2015

I loved Saturday! I got to express myself though both sides of my brain , I just got a bit messy! But as i walked through the streets of Paisley I Got a few puzzled and confused faces but if the new the would maybe look different. When I got home I got my notebook and i choose the word express and and used my left hand side of the brain then i expressed myself with my right hand side on the other page then i wrote about it. I know fell that in my classes at school i get on better because i have thought about both sides of my brain. I also know more about Wassily Kandinsky aswell because he used shape form line and colour through his art and his art also shows that he was free and very creative. Kandinsky's work is known as abstract art which is also known as expressionism(which i talked about in my other comment so i will move on).
I am looking forward to this Saturday because we will be talking about the "little prince"! I am looking forward to hearing about other people talking about their points of view on the matter because i am in the middle of reading "The little prince" and i have loved it so far. The quote from this weeks blog is "Here is my secret, A very simple secret, It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, What is essential is invisible to the eye" my quote is "well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies" which in my mind means you might have to cross a bridge , open a door or ride a rollercoaster to get where you want but there may be a few cracks, keys needed turned or loops to be conquered first!
Ruth x

Emily MurdochFebruary 21, 2015

I absolutely loved Saturday! It really gave us an opportunity to express ourselves not through voice or physical theatre. I definetley agree on which group i was in , as I was not in to getting totally messy in the abstract one, but loved the challenge of trying to create something from what the other group have already made.
I can not wait for Saturday as we will be looking at the little prince, which I cant get enough of! I loved the book, and it is really different from other books but that's what i love about it!

Emily EdenFebruary 21, 2015

I really enjoyed Saturday you got a chance to express yourself through colour and shape. I also found our discussions about the right and left side of the brain very interesting because I can imagine that the right side of the brain is full of colour; and that the left side of the brain is full of knowledge. Can't wait to see you all this afternoon! x

I really enjoyed Saturday, I hope the floor wasn't too messy. I thought it was very interesting learning about the left and the right side of the brain. I think it is amazing that something so artistic can start with something so small-a dot. I've learned a lot over the past few weeks like there are two sides of the brain and that we find one side easier than the other.

Robbie JohnstonFebruary 21, 2015

I loved painting last week!

Morgan grantFebruary 21, 2015

I just read the little prince and I found it fascinating about how the frown-ups didn't understand the boys drawings until he explained them. I loved reading about the adventures of the little prince. When the little prince understood the drawing he was so happy that someone finally knew what the drawing was without home going to show them the second drawing can't wait until the workshop.
Morgan

Emily MurdochMarch 20, 2015

For tomorrow? Would it be okay if we don't get a song or anything but perhaps a type/style of music?